Dexterity... increase butchering speed?

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Dexterity... increase butchering speed?

Post by ewlol »

I know many folks complain about butchering animals... and I agree is it unreasonably time consuming.

Can we look at increasing butcher speed with a stat? Maybe dexterity.

Or, what about a ess/sub/vit butcher speed modifier?
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Make it charisma!
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+1

Also, Charisma should increase chances to get a curio (Weird Beetroot, Wondrous Woodshaving etc.)
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Why not just massively speed it up for everyone? The challenge should be in getting the dead animals in the first place, not in having the patience to butcher them.
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Butchering Station for quick animal processing! Includes auto-sorting of entrails, intestines, and meat.

Not my idea, someone mentioned it before but I don't remember who it was.
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venatorvenator wrote:Butchering Station for quick animal processing! Includes auto-sorting of entrails, intestines, and meat.

Not my idea, someone mentioned it before but I don't remember who it was.
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shubla wrote:
venatorvenator wrote:Butchering Station for quick animal processing! Includes auto-sorting of entrails, intestines, and meat.

Not my idea, someone mentioned it before but I don't remember who it was.
Jorb and Loftar strongly hate all kind of automation like this.
Wasn't the official standpoint the opposite?

Because I feel like that is a mechanic that deserves automation *coughs*...

Some table (1x2 tiles, liftable when empty) you put the animal on, operate to butcher (with a reasonable speed), auto creates stockpiles for intestines, bones and hides on the free tiles around it, and has a spot to collect the blood (similar to tar kiln) so we can make Blutwurst.
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And here I was thinking we should have to string the animals up an hour before processing them into useful meat and such. After all, you have to let them properly drain. ;)

In all seriousness, I think having Dexterity be applicable to how quickly the animals get butchered is great. I'm against it being 'super-fast and easy for all', and appreciate the time it takes to process them now.
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I don't have a problem with the time it takes (even if it could be a bit quicker), but with the clicking involved to sort the stuff coming out of the corpses. Plus no Blutwurst.
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It would also be cool that entrails wouldn't go in same stockpile than intests.
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